Dear friends
While one of the men I am travelling with was being
interviewed on servant hood and serving others, one of his comments triggered a
God thought for me which has been spinning through my mind since.
This man has an incredible ability to serve others (I know,
because it is not the first time I am experiencing his humility in service) and
while questions were being asked of him, his answer to a question, 'How do you
find the energy to keep going out your way to serve others?', he quickly responded,
'I am not going out of my way!'
In that moment, God highlighted the inevitable follow on to
that comment, 'I am not going out of my way... It is my way.'
And as I have been surveying people's service, including my
own, truth be told, most of the time we serve others, we feel like we can put a
feather in our cap because we have gone out of our way to help. And here was a
humble man, just saying it’s not about finding the energy
to keep going out of his way to serve, but rather he has so allowed the Spirit
of God to transform him and to position him as the least among men so that
serving God and men has become his way. The very thing Jesus commands us to be
and do!
So I ask you friends, your service to God and men, does it
feel like you do it from a position of ‘I will do it even though it is
out of my way’, or have you got to the place
where you have substituted your way with God's will and way?
God, would you help us to be renewed and transformed in
order that we might one day be able to say, 'in serving others, I don't go out
of my way; it is my way.'
I love you Southcity and pray for God's protection over you
while I am many thousand kilometres away.
Love
Rich
